#reason

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work. ↗

— Jim Talent

#down #effectively #gone #many #only

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ↗

— Joseph Cook

#compass #conscience #magnetic #our #reason

Cynicism is intellectual treason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#intellectual #treason

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#himself #keep #lead #life #man

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #because #believing #dignity #give

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#because #comforting #done #going #i

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#just #making #no reason #reason #records

I think that things happen for a reason. ↗

— Dave Davies

#i #i think #reason #things #things happen

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why. ↗

— Ben Stein

#been #black #cannot #levels #man

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#admitted #agents #asked #bit #course